TAUK has announced that a self-employed agency chief and his entire team have joined its ranks.
Ian Wilkinson – leader of Agent MXM and in the past the co-founder of Cheshire agency Snowden Wilkinson – has joined TAUK.
TAUK was founded in December 2020 and has over 250 self-employed agents across England, Scotland and Wales.
Last month it was named by the Sunday Times as one of the 100 fastest growing companies in the country – the only estate agency to feature in the league table.
Wilkinson co-founded Snowden Wilkinson in 2005 and spent almost two decades building it into a prominent local firm covering Stockport and the wider Cheshire market.
He then adopted the self-employed model and went on to lead Agent MXM, building a team operating across Greater Manchester and Cheshire.
That team now joins him at TAUK, whose co-founder – Steph Vass – says: “Ian is exactly the kind of agent we built TAUK for. He’s done this job the traditional way and the modern way, and at every stage he’s earned the trust of his market the hard way.
“When an operator of his standing decides the next step is TAUK, it tells you more about where this industry is heading than any market forecast.
“The best agents want to stay personal and local for their clients, and they want a business big enough to carry everything else. That’s what we’re built to be.”
Wilkinson himself adds: “One of our values as a business is that we never stand still, and this is an amazing opportunity for me and my team to accelerate our businesses to the next level by working with the team at TAUK, who have walked the walk and built the systems to make it happen.
“I quickly realised how much further we could take things together.
“My clients and my team will continue to work with the same people they’ve always had, but with a great deal more support behind us now.”
The move follows other recent recruits to the TAUK network.
Last year Chris Buckler brought The Estate Agency to TAUK, followed by Ross McKenzie and Sarah Walters with Cardiff’s Isla Alexander, taking the business to one of the two largest self-employed platforms in the UK.
It was named in the 2026 Sunday Times Top 100 list of Britain’s fastest-growing private companies. TAUK gives experienced agents the independence to run their own businesses with the marketing, technology, compliance and support of a national brand behind them.
